RPM and DEB compatibility

[Andrew Farris]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:48 +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> "Rallias UberNerd" <robinstar1574 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I recently took the time to make a really cool special self-made distro of
> > Linux. However, I want to be able to use both RPM servers and DEB servers
> > to update things with. I don't wish to use the one special piece of
> > software allready out their to turn RPM's into DEB's, because then I can
> > only use DEB servers to update easily, and I want both to have equal
> > precidence (the higher version wins out). Am I being impossible or is
> > their a way to do this?
> 
>  * Most likely quite a lot of the software will not work if you mix
>    packages from different distributions
>  * There's no way to resolve the dependencies using packages from
>    different distributions
>  * Comparing version numbers isn't that easy as most distributions apply
>    their own patches and use their own system of package version
>    numbering that often is different from the software version numbers

If you really want the newest versions of everything, you could always
try your hand at making a package manager that would just fetch the
source code from the app-writer's respective websites, and
compile/install them for you :)

-- 
Andrew
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